"La variante di Sars-CoV-2 identificata a Napoli è un mutante nuovo e al momento raro, che mostra alcune caratteristiche tipiche della variante inglese, ma che presenta due punti di mutazione molto critici: uno comune ai mutanti brasiliano e sudafricano, l'altro del tutto nuovo". Lo spiega in un'intervista all'Adnkronos Salute Arnaldo Caruso, presidente della Società italiana di virologia (Siv-Isv). Quella individuata grazie a una collaborazione tra i laboratori dell'università Federico II e dell'Istituto Pascale di Napoli, "è una variante prevalentemente africana", più precisamente "nigeriana", sottolinea l'esperto, della quale sono già stati identificati oltre 30 casi nel Regno Unito e vari altri in diversi Paesi del mondo. "Si tratta di un'ulteriore variante, nuova rispetto a quelle su cui si è concentrata finora l'attenzione" delle autorità sanitarie, puntualizza
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Expert says ‘Italian’ variant of coronavirus was already circulating in August 29.12.2020
By Giada Zampano
ROME (AA) - Italy reported 11,212 new cases of the novel coronavirus Tuesday, rising again above the 10,000 mark after dipping for two days at around 8,000.
Italian health authorities also registered 659 new deaths from COVID-19, up from 445 a day before.
The higher number of daily infections, however, also reflects the larger number of swab tests administered on Monday.
The infection rate fell to 8.7% from 12.5% in the past 24 hours.
Italy is struggling to contain a second outbreak that has proven to be as deadly as the first.
The Italian government has imposed strict restrictions over the Christmas holidays to limit public movements and large gatherings that could further spread the virus across the country, possibly sparking a third wave early next year.
Updated: 29 Dec 2020, 13:39
A CORONAVIRUS strain similar to the latest UK mutation was already spreading through Italy in August, a leading virus expert has revealed.
The Italian variant was circulating weeks before the first known cases of the UK strain and could have been a precursor to the mutation in England, according to virologist Arnaldo Caruso.
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Professor Arnaldo Caruso said virologists have found a new Covid-19 variant in Italy, similar to the UK variantCredit: YouTube
The patient had first been diagnosed with Covid-19 in April, but was still recording “positive results with highly charged viruses” in August.
“To our surprise we realised that we had identified a new variant, similar but not identical to the English variant that was also starting to circulate in Italy,” said Caruso, a professor at the University of Brescia in northern Italy.